#290: Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums, By Year
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If you were guessing what year Rock 'N' Roll peaked, based on the general consensus of music professionals, which year would you pick? Let's take a look, with female artists in Blue, male artists in Red and mixed groups in Purple:
Year By Year: Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest (Studio) Albums
Years of 16+ transformative albums are in bold
1955: 1
'56: 1
57: 1
58: 1/1
59: 4
60: 1/1
61: 1
62: 1
63: 2
64: 1/2 ... 3
65: 0/10 ... 10
66: 1/5 ... 6
67: 1/12/2 ... 15
68: 2/11/1 ... 14
69: 2/17/2 ... 21
70: 0/21/2 ... 23
71: 5/14/3 ... 22
72: 2/20 ... 22
73: 0/14/1 ... 15
74: 2/3/2 ... 7
75: 4/13 ... 17
76: 1/7 ... 8
77: 0/14/2 ... 16
78: 1/10/3 ... 14
79: 2/9/2 ... 13
80: 1/6/4 ... 11
81: 1/3 ... 4
82: 0/6 ... 6
83: 1/4 ... 5
84: 1/9 ... 10
85: 2/5 ... 7
86: 2/6 ... 8
87: 1/8 ... 9
88: 2/3/1 ... 6
89: 2/6/1 ... 9
90: 2/3/2 ... 7
91: 0/13/3 ... 16
92: 3/5 .... 8
93: 3/6 ... 9
94: 4/9/1 ... 14
95: 2/8 ... 10
96: 2/5/2 ... 9
97: 6/2/1 ... 9
98: 4/3/1 ... 8
99: 4/4 ... 8
00: 2/6 ... 8
01: 1/5/1 ... 7
02: 0/2 ... 2
03: 2/4/1 ... 7
04: 0/6/1 ... 7
05: 3/2 ... 5
06: 1/3 ... 4
07: 1/3 ... 4
08: 0/3 ... 3
09: 0/2 ... 2
10: 1/1 ... 2
11: 2/2 ... 4
12: 2/2 ... 4
13: 1/5 ... 6
14: 1/1 ... 2
15: 0/4 ... 4
16: 4/1 ... 5
17: 2/1 ... 3
18: 2/1 ... 3
19: 1/1/1 ... 3
Notes:
* In eight of the past ten years female artists have tied or overtaken male artists.
* I had to guess whether several artists were female or male.
* Since I did this by hand, I seem to have 502 listed.
* By decade, the figures are:
50s: 9
60s: 75
70s: 167
80s: 78
90s: 89
00s: 49
10s: 36
* Recent generations have had their favorites. But, unheralded material may emerge as music historians and fans sift through and promote relatively obscure albums.
* A review, from The New Yorker's Sheldon Pearce.
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